Yeah - zowee. I saw her (Alison Clinton, lol) on those same tab TV shows today, saying Craig "never made a pass at" her and that she did not have an affair with him.
Whew. First off, she is almost as pretty as Sara, but in a different way (like she has a pierced nose stud, for example). She wasn't just the nanny. She had been Sara's best friend, then president of her fan club, then Sara's personal assistant, then the children's nanny, then a year off for eating disorder treatment paid for by Sara, then back to being Sara's personal assistant for the past year.
She just got married 3 months ago and both Sara and Craig were in the wedding party, plus one or more of Sara's children. Craig "issued a statement" thanking Alison for coming forward and empathizing with what she "is having to put up with."
Then, tonight, they saved Sara's pre-videotaped "statement" on "Dancing with the Stars" until the very end of the show and it was in the form of a very lame interview with the show host Tom Bergeron. It was only 5 minutes long and Sara said absolutely nothing except how much she had enjoyed working on the dances for the show and how she had been committed to going as far as possible, then one thing came up on Tuesday last week and that afternoon was when she filed for divorce (she got the report about what was on her hub's computer) - though some of that had been planned for a while, she said - then something else really urgent happened on Wednesday evening with her son and she had to be with him - not "practicing the disco dances," as she put it.
She was very surprised at all the divorce info that got out on the Internet, which Bergeron kept alluding to.
She said she had had to put her son on the phone with her pastor. Bless her heart - she was rambling somewhat, as far as which parts of the divorce topic she would touch on (none directly) and which parts of needing to be with her family as her reason for leaving Dancing.
I had heard elsewhere that her husband had threatened to take the family to Oregon that night (Wed) when she was so upset - against her wishes. That's when she had to get the TRO's. Her statement left a totally different impression from that, though - as if her son was in a terrible crisis of his own. She said he had been traumatized.
It seemed apparent to me that the husband was acting out whenever she was off rehearsing or practicing for Dancing.
She talked about being a performer and knowing how to go out there and put her "show face" on and she thought she could do it with Dancing, but that night it became impossible. She did say she might be back for the finale in a few weeks - and it was also said that she might compete in the next season's series.
My heart just breaks for her, whatever it is that's happening with her hubby.
I saw that interview, and while it was somewhat lukewarm for those of us who are news junkies, this is a family show (OK, a few PG winks and nudges), and I really respect them for not bringing porn and other matters too advanced (we hope) for our children who also watch.